Ethel Carrick’s painting The quay at Dinard captures a mood of relaxed sociability and leisure as fashionably dressed men and women stroll along the harbourside. Carrick depicts the dazzling light of the day through the reflections on the water and the bright shadows cast by the figures. In The quay at Dinard Carrick created a modern idyll, an elegant scene of outdoor pleasure where the protagonists are the middle classes enjoying the sunshine on a summer day.